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I've just found a footage (2 parts) titled "The Iron Pumpkin", selfmade by the crew of "Rivet Amber", a RC-135. Based at Shemya, Aleutian Islands between 1963 and 1969 this RC-135 made a lot of reconissaince missions monitoring Soviet ICBM test launches during Cold War.
This is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoVV0IS9KEg
The smoke belching out from that thing on take off is jaw dropping. Excuse my ignorance but it looks very similar in many ways to an early development 707. Is this the case?
It is in fact a development of the ubiquitous KC135.
Some KC135A & E originally built and delivered as tankers were converted to RC135 status at the price of very heavy modifications.
Btw, part two of the mission, more aloft views of the bird's skin
The smoke belching out from that thing on take off is jaw dropping. Excuse my ignorance but it looks very similar in many ways to an early development 707. Is this the case?
All USAF aircraft designated XX-135 were built from the Boeing model 367-80, the prototype aircraft for the 707. The fuselage is narrower than the production 707 and a bit shorter. The differences means that almost none of the structural parts used to build the 707's fuselage could be taken directly from the -80 prototype. The military designation for the 707 is C-137.
The old smokey engines were P&W J-57's.
Don
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Don't forget that the wings and original tailplane were also completely different, making the -135 (AKA Boeing 717) completel different than the 707 in everything but general layout.
Later the tailplanes and engine pylons were cannibalized from the 707 to make the KC-135E. As opposed to UY 707's post, no new build KC-135E's were ever made, and no RC-135s were converted from KC-135Es. There were 4 KC-135Ds that the KS ANG operated, that were converted from recon back to near -E standard tankers.
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